Authentic Assessment Toolbox

The Authentic Assessment Toolbox is a resource to help K-12 teachers, especially new teachers, create authentic tasks, rubrics, and standards for measuring and improving student learning.

What is Authentic Assessment? defines and gives examples of authentic assessment, compares it to traditional assessment, and suggests that a combination will most likely meet teacher and student needs.

4. Creating the Rubric

A section on Portfolios explains why they are useful, how to create a portfolio assignment, and how teachers who haven’t used portfolios before can get some experience by using them on a smaller scale.

A section of Examples provides specimen documents for standards, tasks and rubrics, and portfolios for K-12 and higher.

COMMENTS:

Great resource for teachers to use when considering assessments and rubrics for their STEM strategies across the curriculum.

eila kvaran | 2015/12/06

many of the toolkit links are broken

nicole h. | 2015/06/11

The word authentic is used several times and I like to consider the term relevant as well. Students need to be presented with assessments and tasks that are properly aligned with standards. In doing so, the assessment process will become more meaningful as the data it yields will reflect true growth on a given standard.

Les McLean | 2015/06/06

This is all common sense in the preparation of a lesson. Of course, common sense is a misnomer.

Nancy Bean | 2014/02/07

What an excellent resource for STEM type activities for my elementary students.

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